>
> The user dictionary, default.udt , is editable in principle,
> but editing is extremely laborious, because of the numbering of
> the entries. I haven't tried yet, for example, to see if one
> can simply remove an unwanted entry without extremely laborious
> manual renumbering.

If you've got entries like...

IGN_199=Borrelia
IGN_200=Borrelien
IGN_201=Borreliose

you can remove 'Borrelien', for example, and leave 'IGN_200=' empty. The spell checker doesn't mind that, and the next time you add a new entry NT will renumber all entries automatically.

Regards,
Flo

bruce.somers@web.de

Thanks Flo, for sparing a lazy man a couple of tests. IGN_199=Borrelia IGN_200=Borrelien IGN_201=Borreliose you can remove Borrelien , for example, and leave

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Thanks Flo, for sparing a lazy man a couple of tests.

IGN_199=Borrelia
IGN_200=Borrelien
IGN_201=Borreliose
you can remove 'Borrelien', for example, and leave 'IGN_200=' empty. The spell checker doesn't mind that, and the next time you add a new entry NT will renumber all entries automatically.

Good to hear! I've inadvertantly added a few silly entries such as Bradsoft's or ComCtl32, which I'll remove.

Is it NT or Addict that renumbers the entries?

Bruce

Art Kocsis

Bruce, On the contrary, editing the default.udt is quite trivial: Select the first 10 lines and change IGN_ to IGN_0 Select the first 100 lines and repeat.

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Bruce,

On the contrary, editing the default.udt is quite trivial:

Select the first 10 lines and change "IGN_" to "IGN_0"
Select the first 100 lines and repeat.
Use the block mode to cut the first 8 cols from the entire file
and save them in a temp doc.
Edit & sort the remaining to your hearts content
Copy and reinsert the saved text.

No need for anything but basic NTB editing.

BTW, NTB is perfectly happy with leading 0s in default.udt.
Perhaps you should have checked first.

Namaste', Art

At 07/19/2011 15:49, you wrote:

>The user dictionary, default.udt , is editable in principle, but editing
>is extremely laborious, because of the numbering of the entries. I haven't
>tried yet, for example, to see if one can simply remove an unwanted entry
>without extremely laborious manual renumbering.
>
>Another beginner's error is the numbering 0, 1, 2, ... 19, 11, 12, ...
>100, 101, 102, ... of the entries, which assures that they cannot be
>sorted intelligently.

bruce.somers@web.de

... I realize that, Art. For a computer buff with time on his hands, it might be a rewarding pastime. The other dictionaries are not in editable form and are

> Select the first 10 lines and change "IGN_" to "IGN_0"
> Select the first 100 lines and repeat.
> Use the block mode to cut the first 8 cols from the entire file
> and save them in a temp doc.
> Edit & sort the remaining to your hearts content
> Copy and reinsert the saved text.

I realize that, Art. For a computer buff with time on his hands, it might be a rewarding pastime.

The other dictionaries are not in editable form and are not readily manipulated.

Maintenance of dictionaries would seem to me to be a legitimate function of the spelling checker software, no?

Bruce

Art Kocsis

... ... Perhaps. I don t know. I can t remember having had any need to edit the default.udt in the 10 to 20 years I have ben using NTB. I just tried it

>I realize that, Art. For a computer buff with time on his hands, it might
>be a rewarding pastime.

Perhaps. I don't know. I can't remember having had any need to edit the
default.udt in the 10 to 20 years I have ben using NTB. I just tried it to
test the validity of your statement.

>The other dictionaries are not in editable form and are not readily
>manipulated.

True

>Maintenance of dictionaries would seem to me to be a legitimate function
>of the spelling checker software, no?

Probably but spelling does not seem to be a high priority for Eric. NTB
uses v2.02 (dated 06-06-2000), of Addictive Software's spell checker. The
v3.52 dictionary files (dated 05-11-2011), are freely available but require
the v4 engine. I suspect that the v2 add-in was originally freeware (the
author apparently was a student), but it now requires a fee so I doubt we
will see any updates to this function. Personally, I am not a heavy user of
NTB spell check. It is convenient but incomplete. If I really need to check
a word Google or my email app is available.

Eric seems to use a lot of 3rd party add-ins - some legitimate (such as
RegEx), and some not so legitimate (such as the print engine with multiple
and conflicting menus). I suspect they are all freeware.

BTW In looking up info on the NTB spell check, I found an interesting
tidbit, Tiny Spell, that I downloaded 6 years ago. The current version,
1.94, was just updated 05-11-2001. According to its description, it is an
app that will monitor your typing in any windows application. There are
freeware and paid ($10) versions. I haven't tried it but you may want to
check it out: http://tinyspell.numerit.com/

> BTW In looking up info on the NTB spell check, I found an interesting
> tidbit, Tiny Spell, that I downloaded 6 years ago. The current version,
> 1.94, was just updated 05-11-2001. According to its description, it is an
> app that will monitor your typing in any windows application. There are
> freeware and paid ($10) versions. I haven't tried it but you may want to
> check it out: http://tinyspell.numerit.com/

Happy freeware (v. 1.8) user, well worth trying

fw

Art Kocsis

FW, Thanks for the confirmation. Thanks to your quote, I also noticed I had a typo: The last update was May 2011, not 2001. Art

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FW,

Thanks for the confirmation.

Thanks to your quote, I also noticed I had a typo:

The last update was May 2011, not 2001.

Art

At 07/21/2011 16:18, you wrote:

>-- On Thu, 7/21/11, Art Kocsis
><<mailto:artkns%40sbcglobal.net>artkns@...> wrote:
>[snip]
> > BTW In looking up info on the NTB spell check, I found an interesting
> > tidbit, Tiny Spell, that I downloaded 6 years ago. The current version,
> > 1.94, was just updated 05-11-2001. According to its description, it is an
> > app that will monitor your typing in any windows application. There are
> > freeware and paid ($10) versions. I haven't tried it but you may want to
> > check it out: <http://tinyspell.numerit.com/>http://tinyspell.numerit.com/
>
>Happy freeware (v. 1.8) user, well worth trying
>fw

flo.gehrke

... I agree with Bruce. If the NT spell checker would use the latest ADDICT 4 technology we probably had a useful tool for editing DCT files: the Dictionary

Hi Flo, Eric may read it but I doubt it will make any difference. As I wrote a month or two ago in this thread, v2 was freeware, v4 is $$ware. Cost increases

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Hi Flo,

Eric may read it but I doubt it will make any difference. As I wrote a month or
two ago in this thread, v2 was freeware, v4 is $$ware. Cost increases to an app
that is already a back burner product at Fookes software is not gonna happen.

It took 3 years to go from v4,5 to v4.9, another year to release v4.95, and
three
more years to release v5.0. The pace has since picked up slightly as it only
took another 3 years to get to v6.0 plus one more to v6.2 in Jan 2010.
However,
the changes from v4 to v5 were more significant than from v5 to v6. I suspect
that the only changes we will see are maintenance releases to keep up with
new Windows releases from Microsoft.